USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The tea tax was kept in order to maintain Parliament’s right to tax the colonies. The Tea Act was not intended to anger American colonists, instead it was meant to be a bailout policy to get the British East India Company out of debt.

Detailed explanation-2: -The British needed to station a large army in North America as a consequence and on 22 March 1765 the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Townshend Acts which went in effect in 1765 and 1766 were external taxes. The duties were extra payments on such goods as lead, paints, glass, paper and tea (Hafstadter 80).

Detailed explanation-4: -The act granted the EIC a monopoly on the sale of tea that was cheaper than smuggled tea; its hidden purpose was to force the colonists to pay a tax of 3 pennies on every pound of tea. The Tea Act thus retained the three pence Townshend duty on tea imported to the colonies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Stamp Act of 1765 (1765) The Stamp Act of 1765 was ratified by the British parliament under King George III.